Rape and sexual offences

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Freedom of Information (FOI) Act request ref: 01/FOI/24/007211/F

Version Date: 30/01/2025

The Performance & Analysis Department has provided the following information.

Table 1: Rape or attempted rape offences by offender (by offender I mean somebody charged or cautioned with the crime etc. some level of guilt proven) numbers, by ethnicity for the years 2016 to 2023 for the entire police district. Please aggregate these years.

To explain, the columns should be:

White
Black
Asian
Other
Unknown

and the rows:

Rape offences involving

One offender
Two offenders
Three offenders
Four or more offenders

If you cannot do four or more offenders, combined this and three offenders into Three or more offenders. If you cannot do offenders, please do this for suspects

Table 1.1: The above but for Self-Defined Ethnicity (SDE) White British offenders, the Unknown/non-stated amount of offenders, and the total SDE amount

Table 2: Table 1 but for specifically White victims

Table 2.1: Likewise with Table 1.1

Table 3: Likewise with Table 1, general sexual offences by offender numbers, by ethnicity for the years 2016 to 2023. Please aggregate these years.

Table 3.1: Likewise with Table 1.1

Table 4: Table 3 but for specifically White victims

Table 4.1: Likewise with Table 1.1

Data source:

Force crime recording system - Niche

Data Processing:

Qliksense Occurrence - People Links (all)

Offence Group - Rape
Other sexual offences

Crimed date between 01/01/2016 and 31/12/2023

Person Yes

Person - Offender

Restricted crime excluded

Qliksense Occurrence - People Links (all)

Offence Group -

Rape

Other sexual offences

Crimed date between 01/01/2016 and 31/12/2023

Person Yes

Person - Victim

Restricted crime excluded

Note:

If an offender has been linked to a crime in different years they will be counted in each year.

Similarly for white victims.

Data:

The tables below show rape offences with a count of offenders involved in the Force area

1st January 2016 to 31st December 2023

All victims

Ethnic appearance of offender

Year	Offenders per record	Asian	Black	Other	Unknown	White
2016	1	4	8	1	5	100
	2	0	1	0	0	5
2016 Total		4	9	1	5	105
2017	1	2	5	0	5	89
	2	1	0	0	0	2
	3	0	1	0	0	0
2017 Total		3	6	0	5	91
2018	1	1	6	1	8	72
2018 Total		1	6	1	8	72
2019	1	0	9	1	6	94
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2019 Total		0	9	1	6	95
2020	1	1	5	0	7	74
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2020 Total		1	5	0	7	75
2021	1	1	4	0	11	118
	2	0	0	0	0	2
2021 Total		1	4	0	11	120
2022	1	0	8	1	3	119
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2022 Total		0	8	1	3	120
2023	1	2	7	0	1	80
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2023 Total		2	7	0	1	81

1.1 Offender self-defined ethnicity

Year	Offenders per record	White British	Not stated
2016	1	78	21
	2	3	1
2016 Total		81	22
2017	1	75	19
	2	2	1
2017 Total		77	20
2018	1	58	19
2018 Total		58	19
2019	1	78	22
	2	1	0
2019 Total		79	22
2020	1	67	15
	2	0	1
2020 Total		67	16
2021	1	103	21
	2	2	0
2021 Total		105	21
2022	1	106	7
	2	0	1
2022 Total		106	8
2023	1	77	0
	2	1	0
2023 Total		78	0

Just white victims

Ethnic appearance of offender

Year	Offenders per record	Asian	Black	Other	Unknown	White
2016	1	1	7	1	4	77
	2	0	1	0	0	3
2016 Total		1	8	1	4	80
2017	1	2	1	0	3	63
	2	1	0	0	0	2
2017 Total		3	1	0	3	65
2018	1	0	6	0	5	43
2018 Total		0	6	0	5	43
2019	1	0	7	1	5	74
2019 Total		0	7	1	5	74
2020	1	1	4	0	6	51
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2020 Total		1	4	0	6	52
2021	1	1	2	0	7	88
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2021 Total		1	2	0	7	89
2022	1	0	3	1	1	89
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2022 Total		0	3	1	1	90
2023	1	1	7	0	1	57
2023 Total		1	7	0	1	57

2.1 Offender self-defined ethnicity

Year	Offenders per record	White British	Not stated
2016	1	61	16
	2	1	1
2016 Total		62	17
2017	1	52	13
	2	2	1
2017 Total		54	14
2018	1	37	9
2018 Total		37	9
2019	1	62	16
2019 Total		62	16
2020	1	45	13
	2	0	1
2020 Total		45	14
2021	1	78	13
	2	1	0
2021 Total		79	13
2022	1	81	4
	2	0	1
2022 Total		81	5
2023	1	56	0
2023 Total		56	0

The tables below show other sexual offences with a count of offenders involved in the Force area

1st January 2013 to 31st December 2023

All victims

Ethnic appearance of offender

Year	Offenders per record	Asian	Black	Other	Unknown	White
2016	1	13	8	1	20	280
	2	0	0	0	1	0
2016 Total		13	8	1	21	280
2017	1	4	9	1	11	285
	2	0	0	0	0	3
2017 Total		4	9	1	11	288
2018	1	0	10	3	14	265
	2	0	0	0	0	3
2018 Total		0	10	3	14	268
2019	1	4	2	0	16	309
	2	0	1	0	0	1
2019 Total		4	3	0	16	310
2020	1	5	7	0	7	248
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2020 Total		5	7	0	7	249
2021	1	0	2	4	18	269
	2	0	0	0	1	0
	3	0	0	0	1	0
2021 Total		0	2	4	20	269
2022	1	2	5	0	8	278
	2	0	0	0	0	2
2022 Total		2	5	0	8	280
2023	1	4	7	0	9	223
	2	0	0	0	0	3
2023 Total		4	7	0	9	226

3.1 Offender self-defined ethnicity

Year	Offenders per record	White British	Not stated
2016	1	61	16
	2	1	1
2016 Total		62	17
2017	1	52	13
	2	2	1
2017 Total		54	14
2018	1	37	9
	2
2018 Total		37	9
2019	1	62	16
	2
2019 Total		62	16
2020	1	45	13
	2	0	1
2020 Total		45	14
2021	1	78	13
	2
	3	1	0
2021 Total		79	13
2022	1	81	4
	2	0	1
2022 Total		81	5

2023	1	56	0
	2
2023 Total		56	0

Just white victims

Ethnic appearance of offender

Year	Offenders per record	Asian	Black	Other	Unknown	White
2016	1	8	7	0	14	206
	2	0	0	0	1	0
2016 Total		8	7	0	15	206
2017	1	3	7	1	8	181
	2	0	0	0	0	3
2017 Total		3	7	1	8	184
2018	1	0	8	2	12	175
	2	0	0	0	0	2
2018 Total		0	8	2	12	177
2019	1	4	2	0	8	190
	2	0	1	0	0	1
2019 Total		4	3	0	8	191
2020	1	4	3	0	2	132
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2020 Total		4	3	0	2	133
2021	1	0	2	1	13	156
	2	0	0	0	1	0
2021 Total		0	2	1	14	156
2022	1	0	4	0	6	146
	2	0	0	0	0	2
2022 Total		0	4	0	6	148
2023	1	3	3	0	3	90
	2	0	0	0	0	1
2023 Total		3	3	0	3	91

4.1 Offender self-defined ethnicity

Year	Offenders per record	White British	Not stated
2016	1	172	32
	2	0	1
2016 Total		172	33
2017	1	142	34
	2	3	0
2017 Total		145	34
2018	1	152	31
	2	2	0
2018 Total		154	31
2019	1	150	38
	2	1	0
2019 Total		151	38
2020	1	107	26
	2	0	1
2020 Total		107	27
2021	1	134	30
	2	0	1
2021 Total		134	31
2022	1	128	16
	2	2	0
2022 Total		130	16
2023	1	86	4
	2	0	1
2023 Total		86	5

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